@GLitwinski: "Has anyone gotten an after-market USB 2.0 enclosure to work well with a DVD
burner that is capable of 4x or 8x operation?
If yes, which brand of enclosure and which burner?
Is Firewire a better bet for this sort of thing? My own experience seems to
indicate that the Plumax USB 2.0 enclosures do not work well with DVD
burners, although they work very well with HD's and CDRW's.
- GRL
"It's good to want things."
                      Steve Barr (philosopher, poet, humorist, chemist,
Visual Basic programmer)"
    @jseelige: "news:0WGFb.3785630$<email_address>
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Really?  I've always heard, and several articles I just looked up concur,
that Firewire is faster throughput than USB2.0.
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<<Question: Which is faster Hi-Speed USB 2.0 or FireWire?
Answer: In sustained throughput FireWire is faster than USB 2.0.
...
FireWire vs. USB 2.0 Hard Drive Performance Comparison
  Read and write tests to the same IDE hard drive connected using FireWire
and then Hi-Speed USB 2.0 show:
    Read Test:
  5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 33% faster than USB 2.0
160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 70% faster than USB 2.0
      Write Test:
  5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 16% faster than USB 2.0
160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 48% faster than USB 2.0 >>
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Question: USB 2.0 is faster than FireWire...right?
Answer: No, actually FireWire is faster than USB 2.0.
Question: Hold on...USB 2.0 is a 480 Mbps interface and FireWire is a 400
Mbps interface, how can FireWire be faster?
Answer: Raw throughput rating numbers alone don't tell the whole story, as
explained below.
...
Performance Comparison - FireWire vs. USB 2.0
  Read and write tests to the same IDE hard drive connected using FireWire
and then USB 2.0 show:
    Read Test:
  5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 33% faster than USB 2.0
160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 70% faster than USB 2.0
      Write Test:
  5000 files (300 MB total) FireWire was 16% faster than USB 2.0
160 files (650MB total) FireWire was 48% faster than USB 2.0"
    @ericgisin: "news:<email_address>
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superior
Windows.
concur,
Nope, Firewire is already faster than USB2. Last benchmark I saw reported
33MB/s for USB2 and 38MB/s for Firewire 400.
I've never seen USB do better than FW in a proper benchmark."
    @gmayor: "For the purpose of this exercise it is irrelevant which is the faster as
both comfortable encompass the requirements of optical drives.
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    @notreally: "<email_address> says...
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Plextor told me today fireware is also a little more 
stable.  And after packing up my new Plextor USB to return 
to the store, I think that may be the case :-)
Louise (<email_address>)"
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